Investigating agency Enforcement
Directorate issued a fresh summons to Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi
Yadav on Saturday. The RJD leader is involved in a railway land-for-jobs scam
case for which the ED asked him to appear on January 5, said official sources.
Tejashwi was previously called to appear
on December 22 but the 34-year-old ignored the summons. He had termed the ED
notice a regular affair.
His father Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rashtriya
Janata Dal (RJD) chief, has been asked to depose in the case at the ED headquarters
in Delhi on December 27. The alleged scam relates to the time when Lalu Prasad
was the railway minister in the erstwhile UPA-1 Government.
Allegations have been made that from
2004 to 2009, many people were handed out Group “D” category jobs in various
railway zones after they transferred land to the family members of Lalu Prasad Yadav
and a linked company titled AK Infosystems Private Limited.
NE Watch Desk
